“California has rules against assault weapons. It’s just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.” – Chuck Todd

“I won’t have to miss smoking anymore. Nobody smokes where I’m going: it’s like a row of restaurant in California.” – Clive James



“In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course tobacco companies are thinking, Cigarette sandwiches – what a great idea.” – Jay Leno



“I hear the weed is really strong in California.” – Saul Williams



“What’s right for New York or California, is not necessarily right for lowa.” – Joni Ernst



“California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone’s seen California.” – Morris Chestnut



“It’s very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.” – Bonnie Raitt



“Calling something ‘new age’ is one of the media’s biggest cannons. If you’re called ‘new age,” you couldn’t possibly be serious, you couldn’t possibly have anything deep to say, and you probably hang out in California too much – and we know that no one in California reads books or has any serious thoughts!” – Marianne Williamson



“I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our ticket home. He did.” – Victoria Woodhull



“I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California. I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.” – Mark Hoppus



“The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he’s met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California.” – Pico Iyer



“In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even Nazis are going “That’s weird.” – Robin Williams



“They say California’s the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.” – Dan Rather



“What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.” – Chris Hayes



“There’s also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it’s a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don’t make it.” – Mark Hoppus



“I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that’s a completely different world than in California where I think there’s different dreams and aspiration of maybe being so-called ‘star’ and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it’s theater or commercials.” – Linda Blair



“A new restaurant here in southern California requires women to wear high hills. I’m outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?” – Craig ferguson



“I wouldn’t live in California. All the sun makes you sterile.” – Alan Alda



“Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.” – Joseph Barbera



“I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out.” – Louie Anderson



“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.” – Arthur Erickson



“California is beautiful to look at, but you can’t be a part of it like you can in Michigan.” – Jennifer Granholm



“California, in a sense, is almost starbucks’ largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.” – Howard Schultz



“I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.” – Joey King



“I’m never going to get married again. Three strikes, you’re out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don’t I? I think you only get three.” – Roseanne Barr



